Journal style stories

I haven't seen/read any like that recently, but I'd be open to checking one out if I ran across it. I think you've touched on the key here: If it's well written. There's a place for anything that's well written. I say do it! Good luck.

i know it's not very recent, but wasn't a lot of the color purple told through celie's diary/unsent letters to her children? i haven't read that book in years, but i remember it tore my heart out (in a good way).

only other ones i can think of are go ask alice which i think is about 40 yrs old now, and Christianne F which i think is written by combining journal entries with interviews the title character gave the authors. (american title of christianne f is H). i think that book was written in the 80's.

so no, i can't think of anything recent, but those that i do remember struck a strong emotional chord.

What matters, in my opinion, is the story you tell, not how it's written. If the journal format works for you and for the story, why not ?

If you're still not sure about it, post an excerpt in the SYW boards and see what people tell you.

Here you go:

List of contemporary epistolary novels

Children of Men started off as a journal...